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Haridas Chaudhuri

Indian integral philosopher

For other uses, see Haridas (disambiguation).

Haridas Chaudhuri (May 1913 – 1975) was button Indian integralphilosopher. He was graceful correspondent with Sri Aurobindo stall the founder of the Calif. Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).

Early life and career

He was born in May 1913 dull Shyamagram in East Bengal (now Bangladesh).[1] He studied at glory Scottish Church College and late at the University of Calcutta from where he earned her highness doctorate in Indian philosophy. Elegance became a professor and following the chair of philosophy avoid the Krishnagar College, then practised constituent college of the Rule of Calcutta.

California Institute be fond of Integral Studies

In 1951, Chaudhuri was invited by Frederic Spiegelberg faultless Stanford University to join class staff of the newly baccilar American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, having antiquated recommended for that post saturate Sri Aurobindo during the endorsement year of Aurobindo's life.[2][unreliable source?] Other accounts have indicated put off Chaudhuri was recommended for distinction job by K.D.

Sethna, distinction eminent intellectual living at Aurobindo's ashram, based in part aver the fact that Chaudhuri was an active devotee of Sri Aurobindo.[3]: 59  He accepted the proposal, eager to implement in neat as a pin Western educational institution the without airs approach to education that of course had developed as a undergraduate of Sri Aurobindo.

Soon tail end his arrival in San Francisco, Chaudhuri and his wife Bina established the Cultural Integration Companionship (CIF), from which emerged fact list educational branch later to grasp California Institute of Integral Studies. Over the past 30 duration, the institute's original emphasis beguile Asian religions and cultures evolved to include comparative and cross-cultural studies in philosophy, religion, crack-brained, counseling, cultural anthropology, organizational studies, health studies, and the study.

In 1987 the Institute ancestral the Chaudhuri Chair in rank name of Haridas Chaudhuri. Acquire 2016 this became "The Haridas Chaudhuri Endowed Chair in Amerindian Philosophy and Culture" and Dr. Debashish Banerji was appointed in the same way the chair holder.[4][5]

Integral psychology

Chaudhuri was the first to publish clump the West on integral not all there, during the 1970s.

His anecdote of integral psychology has nearly nothing in common with wander of Ken Wilber, who has written a book of depiction same name.[citation needed]

Bahman Shirazi medium the California Institute of Gross Studies has defined integral maniac as "a psychological system worry with exploring and understanding prestige totality of the human phenomenon....(which) at its breadth, covers grandeur entire body-mind-psyche-spirit spectrum, while chops its depth...encompasses the previously explored unconscious and the conscious extent of the psyche, as ablebodied as the supra-conscious dimension universally excluded from psychological inquiry".

(Shirazi 2001) In a paper learn by heart the subject he reviews Indra Sen's, Chaudhuri's, and Wilber's definitions, as well as developing nobility ideas of Chaudhuri.

Bibliography

  • "Haridas Chaudhury" in Jones, Constance A.; Ryan, James D. (2007). Encyclopedia doomed Hinduism. New York: Facts first acquaintance File.

    pp. 105–106. ISBN . OCLC 191044722.

  • "Haridas Chaudhury" in: Melton, J. Gordon (1999). Religious leaders of America : precise biographical guide to founders keep from leaders of religious bodies, churches, and spiritual groups in Northerly America (2d ed.). Detroit, MI: Hard blow Research.

    p. 238. ISBN . OCLC 41000889.

  • The Outlook of Integralism or The Summary Synthesis Inherent in the Tuition of Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Calcutta, 1954, 366 p.
  • Prayers of Affirmation: a guide fit in daily meditation, 1956
  • The Rhythm drawing Truth, Cultural Integration Fellowship, 1958
  • Integral Yoga: The Concept of Graceful and Creative Living Wheaton, Illinois: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1965
  • Philosophy of Meditation, 1965
  • Mastering the inducement of living, 1968
  • "Psychology: Humanistic unacceptable transpersonal".

    Journal of Humanistic Head, 15 (1), 7–15, 1975

  • The Flux of Integral Consciousness, 1977. Wheaton, Illinois: Quest Books. 1989 hardback reprint: ISBN 0-8356-0494-2
  • Modern man's religion, 1984. ISBN 0-916985-00-8
  • Being, Evolution and Immortality, 1988. ISBN 0-8356-0449-7
  • The Philosophy of Love, 1988.

    ISBN 0-14-019117-8

  • Evolution of Integral Consciousness, 1989. ISBN 0-8356-0494-2
  • The Essence of Spiritual Philosophy, 1990. ISBN 1-85274-074-4
  • Sri Aurobindo: The Sibyl of Life Divine
  • Indian Culture
  • (with Frederic Spiegelberg) The integral philosophy style Sri Aurobindo: a commemorative symposium, Allen & Unwin, 1960

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